Novela negra

"Where the hell are we goin'?" Coffin ED asked
"Damned if I know" Grave Digger confessed
"Hell" Coffin Ed said disgustely. "One day we lose our car and the next we lose our man"
"Pull down", Coffin Ed shouted back. "At thsi rate we'll be in Albany."
Grave Digger pulled up to the curb at 145th Street. "All right, let's give this some thought", he said.
"What kind of mother-raping thought?" Coffin Ed said
He was near enough to the scene where the acid had been thrown into his face to evoke the memory. The tic started in his face and his nerves got on an edge.

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